Adversarial Cloud Security: Offensive Security in Cloud Environments (De Gruyter Textbook) by Christopher Quinn
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Readers will gain insight into weaponizing trust boundaries, exploiting identity and access management systems, establishing undetectable footholds, and thinking strategically in terms of control rather than mere compromise. From advanced post-exploitation techniques and lateral movement to stealthy persistence leveraging cloud-native misconfigurations, this book captures the methods actually employed by red teams and sophisticated adversaries in the wild. Eschewing beginner tutorials and sanitized lab exercises, this work emphasizes adversary emulation grounded in operational realism. It is designed for red team operators, cloud security engineers, and offensive practitioners who want to understand how modern cloud intrusions unfold―and why conventional defenses so often fail to detect or contain them.